Red Cross Home Service Institute Opens in Cedar Rapids
Red Cross home service workers from Linn county and beyond gather in Cedar Rapids for a three day institute starting Tuesday May 12 registering 9 to 10 a.m. on the Y W C A third floor. Sessions run Wednesday and Thursday in the auditorium with talks by Esther Bryan Alice Salter Mildred Hunt and Miss Bryan continuing discussions on home service family welfare and case work. Out of town visitors include Glenn J McLaughlin and others from Muscatine Manchester Lisbon and several Linn county branches.
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ED Cross
Linn County
Cedar Rapids
Wells C. Peck
Red Cross Chapter
Carl Ettinger
Home Service
Esther Bryan
St. Louis
American Red Cross
Alice Salter
Coe College
Mildred Hunt
Miss Bryan
Iowa State Welfare Society
Des Moines
Glenn W. Higbee, Jr
Staff Assistance Committee
Mesdames Lester Johnson
Robert Kibbie
Dell Leibsohn
Clayton W. Mossman
Miss Bryan J
University of Indiana
School of Social Service Administration
University of Chicago
Red Cross
Kansas Emergency Relief Committee
Kansas Era Department of Social Research
Kansas
WPA
Jackson
Mich
Gail Thompson Gibson
Muscatine
P. J Etter
Washington
Forrest Jones
Manchester
Lena Hollis
Marengo
A. J. Bird
Belle Plaine
Theodore Muhl
Vinton
Iowa City
Williamsburg
Mt Vernon
Lisbon
Coggon
Central City
Springville
Marion
Australian survivor details 12 day raft ordeal after ship torpedo
Terrace Bradley, 25, recounts 12 days adrift off the Atlantic coast after his Panamanian merchantman was torpedoed. He and Belgian chief steward Joseph Dieltiens survived on a raft, catching food and enduring a delirious companion before rescue by a coast guard plane. Dieltiens died hours later.
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Norfolk
Terrace Bradley
Atlantic
Bradley
Joseph Dieltiens
Coast Guard
Dieltiens
Comdr. Burke
Marine Hospital
Diekiens
Italy celebrates Empire Day with Rome parade
In Rome a grand Empire Day parade unfolded before King and Premier Mussolini. Marching troops and bands filled Piazza Venezia as Italy marked six years since Mussolini proclaimed a Roman empire based on Ethiopia conquest, a regime since toppled in East Africa by British forces. Haile Selassie is restored to the Ethiopian throne in Addis Ababa.
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Berlin
Rome
Italy
Mussolini
Piazza Venezia
Ethiopia
Italian East Africa
Haile Selassie
Addis Ababa
Seven British Fighters Lost In Air Battle
In a major air clash over Hazebrouck and surrounding targets, RAF and Luftwaffe fighters fought fiercely as British losses were reported at seven aircraft with German losses confirmed for at least one. Other RAF raids hit Bruges Cap Gris-Nez Calais regions. explosions shook Folkestone.
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London
RAF
Hazebrouck
France
Channel
Germany
Low Countries
Air Ministry
Bruges
Belgium
Cap Gris- Nez
Calais
Folkestone
Roosevelt Proclaims June 14 Flag Day Honors Allied Flags
President Roosevelt designates June 14 as Flag Day and urges Americans to fly the American flag and the flags of the United Nations. He urges joint displays where feasible, honors mothers and sons serving, and calls government buildings to display banners in solidarity during the ongoing war.
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Washington
INS
Roosevelt
Flac
United Nations
Nazi-Mexican Swap Proposed by Hitler
Adolf Hitler offers a swap exchanging Gen. Juan Azcarate former Mexican minister to Berlin for George Nicolaus a top Gestapo agent in Mexico Nicolaus was arrested February 28 for passing tanker departure and route details and is jailed on Maria Island penal colony
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Mexico City
INS
Adolf Hitler
Juan Azcarate
Berlin
George Nicolaus
Mexico
Nicolaus
Marias Island
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C. R
Mrs. Hunt
Grams
Missouri State Board of Education
Glenn J. McLaughlin
Anamosa
Red Cross Field
Metcalf Plumbing & Heating Company
Oakland Ave
Tom Bowker
Wae
Troy Laundry
First Street
Diel
F. R
Nation
Hitler
Cutrate Drug Store
H&h
Proctor & Gamble
PTO
Ivory
Lee
Stee
Crisco
Filmes
Gevaert
Packer's
Py Aea
Rupe
Tour Rands
Baschall Cles
Mile Park
Ourtlon
Woodbury
Gosmet
Hars
Khodaks
Bull Durham Tobacco
Pinkham ‘Compound
Page & Shaw
Schrafft’s
Lft
May's
Hind
Jones
Bion
Laster Whaley
Hiawatha
Kane
Thornton & Minors
Thornton
Butler
Scholl’s
Absorbine, Jr
The
United States Supreme Court
Johnson
Ginsberg's
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